On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:09:49 -0400, Larry
wrote:

bpuharic wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:40:39 -0400,
wrote:


bpuharic wrote:

coming into dock today, the wind caught me and slammed me into a
piling...popped a few screws on the rail stanchion posts where they
hit the deck.

was thinking of just putting some wood into the holes, sealing them
with adhesive/sealant and replacing the screws.

any better methods? getting to the holes from under the deck is damn
near impossible


How big are the holes? Putting wood in them? - they must be huge. Post
a photo if you can, but I think you need some epoxy.

i thought about wood, but will probably go with the epoxy. holes
aren't big...they're the standard screws used to hold a stanchion post
to the deck. no sign of damage to the deck itself so i assume the
stanchion lifted straight up and pulled out the screws

Do you think you have rotting wood around the holes? Epoxy will only
help if the substrate around it is sound.

no, i think the substrate is sound. it's just the force of the
collision with the piling lifted the railing away from the deck. the
piling got under the rail when the boat got pushed into it by the
wind. so the deck is sound